U.S. Sugar

Production is number one. You will work your life away. There are employees who don't work or hardly work and make your shift harder which in turn makes management put more pressure on you the hard working employee. Departments don't work well with one another. You aren't compensated enough for the various equipment you have to work on or the number of equipment. You have equipment break down and still have scheduled work to complete with management breathing down your neck to complete scheduled work. The other department always complaining about equipment being down and not fixed fast enough but won't train operators properly and why those operators aren't paid enough. The other department calls your department to complain about you without even asking what the situation is. There's only one mechanic per crew per shift with a 20+ equipment to cover. There isn't anything good about this company or the other similar companies.

Terrible hours, shift work, work 7 days 8am to 4pm with 2 days off then go to 2nd shift 4pm to midnight then 1.5 days off then go to night shift midnight to 8am work 7 days with 4 days off and start the rotation over again.  Not enough mechanics to cover, rather than pulling someone off the straight day mechanics shift to help the rotating shifts when someone is on vacation they just work the rotating workers and make them work 12 hours each.  This is an ok place, however they really need to rethink their schedules.  I have worked for 2 other Sugar plants in the United States and this ones schedule is unheard of and brings down the moral of the employees. This is also the first one I have worked for that makes you pay for your health insurance, I have been in the sugar industry for over 20 years and never had to pay for health benefits.  Supervisor is great and so are my coworkers.

1) You must cover the entire plant on foot, the plant is somewhat the size of two football fields.
2) There is no work life balance you are always at work, shifts rotate, so you work every shift, moring, mid, and overnight.
3) Managers are not helpful, and will throw you under the bus any chance they get.
4) The senior employees don't want you to succeed, so they can prove their worth, hoping they will get raises.
5) Sometimes they forget to pay you and you must keep track of your hours.
6) If you need to call out for any reason you must notify every employee in your shop and make sure one of them can cover your shift or you will be held responsible .

What is the best part of working at the company?
It’s ok now but it was awesome when it was ran by LDC

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Swing shifts  you on day one week and nights the next

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The people are ok the culture is good because it’s really nothing hard about the job the equipment is old and break down a lot but the good thing about that is while it’s down you can pretty much chill 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Making sure bags of sugar isn’t busted on the line and keeping your machine clean and running

The job was a very easy going job. Everyone was very close to one another and we all worked together very well. Management was great and cared about their employees. The hardest part of the job was repairing the machine when it broke down. I enjoyed everything about this job and learned a lot from it. I got forklift certified and learned alot about sugar that i did not know. It taught me also that a woman can do anything.

What is the best part of working at the company?
You would not want me to give my honest opinion on that. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Employees moral is is always down due to bad management and safety issues 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Depends on what department you work in

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
No longer an employee there and have nothing good to say about US Sugar

When I first started working for the company, I felt welcomed there but, I realized that the management in the locomotive shop was new and didn’t have the knowledge of locomotives that was needed! After being with the company for 3 years, they had another management change in my department but, this time the 2 managers didn’t know anything about the job and this made it even more impossible to bare!

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part was the yearly bonus and the end of the season bbq

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It's would be a great company to work for if there wasn't micro management and if management could get on the same page 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
One never knew what kind of day was ahead of them

If you're anywhere close to retiring, then this is the place for you. Young people should avoid this workplace if you're looking to be challenged or respected as an employee. Pay is great for the area and for the industry, but I couldn't see myself continue to be so stunted career-wise as I had no means of moving vertically or even horizontally within the company. Management is in serious need of an overhaul. HR is a joke.

to put it the best way possible, they are sexist, when the production manager got fired and tried to get everyone fired and left us with a broke machine and no tools or knowledge to fix it but as far as the job it was great if they did their own hiring instead of through a temp agency. but a great pay 10/hr 3 13 hour shifts . so its the lesser of two evils.

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